The Kinsale Gourmet Festival (October 7 to 9) hits 40 this year and the promised shindig should be a mighty and deservedly celebratory affair indeed for this historical little port and fishing town spent many years to the very forefront of Irish food and in recent times has been doing much to regain its masticatory mojo.

A Tipperary food producer has taken the top prize in this year’s Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards while Dunnes Stores was named the top retailer of 2016.

Ray Ryan looks at the rising demand for gluten-free and other specialist foods, which Bord Bia says is a prime market for Irish food producers.

Ireland has one of the highest rates of coeliac disease in Europe — yet 42% of people are misdiagnosed before doctors realise patients are suffering from the auto-immune illness.

The Ballynogluten 100% Gluten Free Roadshow. In association with SuperValu organised by the Coeliac Society of Ireland and held at Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork. 

Opting for a gluten-free diet as a lifestyle choice rather than because of an actual intolerance to gluten is sending mixed messages to workers in the hospitality industry about what coeliacs can or cannot eat.

Restaurants and retailers say not enough consultation behind move

The Coeliac Society of Ireland, in association with SuperValu, will host Ireland’s first ever 100% Gluten Free Food Market at the Silver Springs Moran Hotel in Cork tomorrow (October 4), part of the association’s annual convention there.

The first supermarket in Ireland to launch a designated in-store gluten-free bakery and food production facility was launched in Clonakilty, Co Cork, yesterday

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Ireland’s first gluten-free in-store bakery will open this summer in Scally’s SuperValu in Clonakilty, Co Cork, creating five new jobs.

When many of today’s coeliacs were diagnosed there was very little gluten-free food. Today there are far more options and coping mechanisms, says Áilín Quinlan

The Coeliac Society of Ireland is today the Government to reverse its decision to stop gluten-free foods becoming available free-of-charge to medical card patients.

Up to 16,000 medical card holders who have coeliac disease will no longer be able to use their cards to buy gluten-free products — a change in policy that could add up to €80 a month to a person’s grocery bill.

CAOIMHE DUNNE was diagnosed as a coeliac when she was 19 months. Since birth she had been constantly sick and tired.

THE Irish Pharmacists’ Union has said it has no control over members who are putting substantial mark- ups on the gluten-free products they sell for coeliac customers.

THE Irish Pharmacists’ Union has said it has no control over members who are putting substantial mark- ups on the gluten-free products they sell for coeliac customers.

COELIAC disease is triggered by eating gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley, oats and rye.

XANTHAN GUM: An invaluable aid for gluten-free baking, as gluten-free flours are less elastic in texture. Adding a small amount of xanthan gum will to some extent replace these elastic qualities.

COELIAC disease, a serious auto immune condition that can be caused by eating wheat, barley and other foods, may be more common than previously thought, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in the US.